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F# Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:49 PM by RickM
Over this past week at PDC I was lucky enough to see some fantastic sessions and spend time with members of the F# and greater Visual Studio language teams.  Naturally, these experiences have left me both floored and swimming in new ideas.  Read More...
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.NET 2.0 ActiveX Control Gotchas (Safe for Scripting and Hooking into Events)

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:41 PM by RickM
I’ve recently been building an ActiveX Control in .NET 2.0 and thought I would share some of the problems I’ve run into, as well as their solutions.  I hope that in reading this you can avoid a few of the timesinks I fell into.    Safe Read More...
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How to determine which language(s) were used to build a .NET assembly

Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:00 AM by RickM
While in most cases there is no explicit information in an assembly as to which languages it was compiled from, it is possible to make an educated guess as to which languages were used.  This is due to the fact that each different .NET compiler leaves Read More...
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One of these languages is not like the others - Part 1 - Enforcement of Abstract Implementation

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:47 AM by RickM
This is the first in a series of posts on the topic of interaction between different .NET languages.  I will cover all of the major Microsoft languages: C#, Visual Basic, F# and C++/CLI. In this first post in the series I will build a four language Read More...
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Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly (.NET Memory Management: Part 5)

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:39 PM by RickM
It has come to my attention via a recent DZone article that .NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you manipulate the way your garbage collector acts programmatically. This can be done through changing the value of a new property Read More...
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Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application (.NET Memory Management: Part 4)

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:11 PM by RickM
Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow Read More...
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Custom Serializing Objects for Use in a Debugger Visualizer

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:02 PM by RickM
I have a new CodeProject article up which details how to make a Debugger Visualizer in the case where you need to custom serialize the object. The actual classes I build in the tutorial are only useful with our DotImage project line. However, the process Read More...
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Basic Memory Housekeeping (.NET Memory Management: Part 1)

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:25 PM by RickM
This is the first in a series of posts I will be writing about managing memory in .NET. Before I move on to more complex techniques, I thought it would be good to cover the basics. Articles in This Series Part 1 - Basic Housekeeping Part 2 - Improving Read More...
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Counting Processors in .NET: The Pros and Cons of Five Different Methods

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:54 PM by RickM
There are a great number of different ways to count the number of processors available to the .NET developer. In this post I will go over some of the more common methods and their pros and cons. The Envirionment.ProcessorCount Way Code: Environment .ProcessorCount; Read More...
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